DISCLAIMER: I don't remember writing a book where a boy runs through a wall to a mythical train station or where dead dragons somehow lived long enough to raise children. So I don't believe I own Fairy Tail or Harry Potter.
Also really sorry, I know the last chapter wasn't that good, I hope to make it up this chapter. Also any reviews will be responded to at the end of the chapter, thank you in advance to those who review my story.
Metalicana's last month with the Lates family wasn't very enjoyable. Even though Jose was so scared of him that he wouldn't even be in the same room as Metalicana, while Uncle Hibiki and Aunt Jenny just didn't speak to him at all. It did improve his life a little, but it was a little depressing.
Metalicana stayed in his new room, with his new exceed for company. He called him Pantherlily, Lily for short, a name of a character in one of Jose's favorite video games.
Metalicana also read his school books, which he found interesting. He would be reading late at night, and Lily would go in and out of the window as much as he liked. It was a good thing Aunt Jenny didn't come up there anymore, because Lily kept bringing back kiwis. Metalicana had no idea where he got them.
Finally, it was the last day of August, and Metalicana went to his aunt and uncle to see if they would take him to the train station. The family was watching a game show. Metalicana cleared his throat to let them all know he was there. Jose screamed and ran out of the room.
"Uh, Uncle Hibiki," Metalicana said.
Hibiki gave a grunt in response.
"I need to be at the train stations tomorrow, to get to Fairy Tail."
Hibiki gave another grunt.
"Would you mind giving me a ride there?"
Grunt, again. Metalicana took that as a yes.
"Thanks."
He was about to go back upstairs when his uncle spoke up.
"Where is this school anyway?"
"I don't know," Metalicana said.
He took the ticket he got from Gildarts out of his pocket.
"I just have to be on platform four and three quarters at eleven to catch the train."
"There's no four and three quarters, are you crazy?" Uncle Hibiki asked.
"That's what it says on my ticket," Metalicana replies.
"Yeah right, you'll see tomorrow."
Metalicana woke up at five the next morning, too excited to try and go back to sleep. He got dressed in his normal clothes, figuring it was best that he didn't wear the new clothes he got for school to the train station. He would just get changed on the train. Double checked his list to make sure he wasn't missing anything, put Lily in a carrier, and went downstairs to what for everyone else. Two hours later they were packing the car with Metalicana's suitcases. Aunt Jenny had convinced Jose into sitting next to Metalicana and they left. They reached the train station at ten thirty. Uncle Hibiki was really nice and wheeled Metalicana's suitcase onto the platform, with an evil grin on his face. He stopped.
"Well here you are brat. Platform four and Platform 5. Your platform should be right in the middle, have a good term," Uncle Hibiki said with the wicked smile.
The Lates family drove away after that, all of them were laughing. He'd have to ask someone where the platform is. He didn't want to bother even asking a worker, they would just laugh at him too. Metalicana was panicking, only ten minutes to go before the train is supposed to leave according to the big clock on the wall. Metalicana was stranded in the middle of a train station, with a heavy suitcase, a pocket full of wizard money, and a cat that flies. He thought about tapping on some of the bricks between platforms four and five like Gildarts did when they went shopping. A large family passed him and he caught a little bit of what they were saying.
"…packed with Muggles, as always…"
Metalicana turned around. The speaker as a woman, maybe in her early fifties, talking to four boys, two of the boys had red hair, the other two had gray hair. Each of them where dragging a suitcase behind them, he also saw a purple cat, an exceed. Metalicana, now full of hope, walked over to the group. They stopped and Metalicana did too, just enough space in between them so he could hear what they were saying.
"What's the platform number?" the mother asked.
"Four and three quarters," a young blue haired girl who was holding the mother's hand said, "Mom, why can't I go too?"
"You're not old enough River, we've been over this. Alright, Atlas, you first."
The oldest boy, one of the red heads, got his suitcase and started running towards the barrier between platforms four and five. After he passed a group of people came, and when the people passed by the boy was gone.
"Weisslogia, your turn," the mom said.
One of the gray hair boys stepped up, "I'm not Weiss, I'm Skiadrum. And you call yourself our mother. Can't you tell the difference between me and my twin."
"Sorry, Skiadrum, I didn't mean to."
"Just kidding, I actually am Weisslogia," the boy called.
The other gray haired boy, identical to the other, followed behind who Metalicana assumed was his twin. The two boys just seemed to vanish into the wall.
Metalicana finally decided to speak up, "Excuse me," he said to the woman.
She turned to him, "Hello dear, let me guess, first year at Fairy Tail? Don't worry, Igneel's new too."
She pointed the last red head boy, who was wearing jeans and a red sweatshirt. He was about Metalicana's height, about the same build as well. He had golden eyes, and when Metalicana looked at them he could see how friendly the boy was.
"Yeah," Metalicana said, "Actually I was hoping you could tell me how to.."
"How to get on the platform?" she said sweetly.
Metalicana nodded.
"It's simple, just walk right through the barrier between platforms four and five. If your nervous you can run. Go on ahead of Igneel."
Metalicana lined himself up with the barrier. He took a leap of faith a run straight through. Metalicana expected himself to crash into the wall, but he didn't. When opened his eyes on the other side, there was a crimson red steam engine, and a platform packed with people. When he looked up at the barrier it said four and three quarters on it. The train was crowded as well, Metalicana finally found an empty seat at the back of the train. He tried to lift up his suitcase to place on the seat next to him but no luck.
"Want some help?"
Metalicana saw one of the gray haired twins from earlier.
"Yes, thanks."
"Hey Weiss, come over here and help me with this!"
The twins placed it on the seat with ease, though the fact that two people were lifting it helped
"Thanks," Metalicana said, rubbing him shoulder, pushing his shirt sleeve up to show his scar.
"What's that?" one of the twins asked pointing to his scar.
"No way," the other twin said, "Are you?"
"He is," the first replied, "Right?"
"What?" Metalicana said.
"Metalicana Redfox," the twins said at the same time.
"Oh, him," Metalicana said, "Wait, I mean, yes, yes, I am."
The two boy's jaws dropped, and Metalicana could feel himself going red.
"Weiss? Skiadrum?" someone called.
"Coming!" the twins yelled.
They went to the window on the other side of the train compartment.
"Now you two better behave yourselves this year, I don't want to get another exceed telling me that you went a blew up a toilet or…" their mother said.
"Blow up a toilet? How did we not think of that before?"
"Great idea, Mom, thanks."
"Don't you dare. And look after Igneel."
"Don't worry, little Iggy poo is safe with us."
"Shut up," Igneel shouted.
"Oh, guess who's right here with us on the train, we just met him," one of the twins said.
"You know that boy that was near us at the station, guess who is," the other said.
"Who?" the mom asked.
"Metalicana Redfox!" they said in unison.
"Oh, can I please go on the train and see him," a little girl said.
"You've already seen him, and the poor thing isn't some zoo animal. How did you find this out, Weisslogia?"
"We saw his scar and asked him about it."
"The poor dear, no wonder he was by himself."
"Never mind that, do you think he remembers You-Know-Who?
"You cannot and will not ask him that Weisslogia. He doesn't need to be reminded of that on his first day of school."
"All right."
A whistle went off.
"Igneel, hurry and get on the train!" their mother said.
"We'll send you a toilet seat from Fairy Tail," one of the twins shouted.
"Skiadrum!"
"Kidding."
The youngest of her boys came up the stairs, and stood next to his older brothers. He saw them waving to their mother and sister as the train started to move. The twins went back to their seats from before and Igneel just turned around.
"Is it ok if I sit there, everywhere else is probably full by now," he asked Metalicana, pointing to the seat across from him.
"Go ahead."
"Thanks."
Igneel sits down and the twins come back.
"Hey, Igneel. We'll be in the middle of the train, Warren has a giant tarantula over there," one of them said.
"Ok," Igneel mumbled.
"Metalicana," the other twin said, "I don't think we introduced ourselves. Weisslogia and Skiadrum Dragneel. And this is Igneel, our little brother. See you guys later."
The two of them left, for real this time, leaving Metalicana and Igneel alone in the compartment.
"Are you really Metalicana Redfox?" Igneel asked.
Metalicana nodded.
"Sorry, Weiss and Skiadrum are always playing pranks, thought that was one of them," Igneel explained, "And you really have…" he pointed to his own shoulder.
Metalicana got the message, and pulled the sleeve of his shirt up to show the scar.
"So that's where You-Know-Who…"
"Yes," Metalicana interrupted, "but, I don't really remember it."
"Nothing?"
"Just a green flash, but that's it."
"Wow," Igneel just stared in awe at Metalicana, "I heard that you went to live with Muggles. What are they like?"
"Terrible, not all of them, but my aunt, uncle, and cousin are. Wish I had three wizard brothers."
"Five," Igneel said, in a kind of gloomy tone, "I'm number six in our family to go to Fairy Tail. I have a lot to live up to. The oldest two already left, one was a head boy and the other was the captain of the Chariot team. Now Atlas Flame's an Advisor. Weiss and Skiadrum mess around but still get good grades, and everyone thinks they're hilarious. Everyone expects me to well, but even if I did it doesn't matter because my brothers did first. I have Atlas's old clothes, my oldest brother's wand, and the second oldest pet rat."
Igneel thought he was complaining too much, so he decided to just stare out of the window instead of continuing. Metalicana saw no problem with any of it, even if his family couldn't afford to buy Igneel new clothes and wands. So to make him feel better, Metalicana told Igneel how bad his life was, with Jose's old clothes, and awful birthday presents. Metalicana's plan seemed to work, Igneel was definitely in a better mood.
"…. I didn't even know about what happened to my parents or Zeref."
Igneel gasped.
"What?" Metalicana asked.
"You said You-Know-Who's name!"
"Sorry, but you see what I mean, I still have a ton to learn. I bet I'll be the worst in the entire class," Metalicana said, finally voicing something that had been bothering him for a while.
"Don't worry. There's a lot of people who come from Muggle families and they learn just as fast as the rest of us."
It was about twelve and a woman with a cart came and opened the door to their compartment.
"Would you boys like anything?" she asked.
Metalicana hadn't had breakfast so he jumped at the chance. Igneel said something about already having some snacks packed. Metalicana was ready to buy as many snickers as he could carry with the gold coins he had in his pocket. However, the candy cart didn't have any candy that Metalicana recognized. Metalicana wanted to try all the wizard candy he could, so he got some of everything on the cart and piled a small amount of the coin jewels to pay for it. Igneel was shocked, but just went on to unwrap a sand which.
"Want to share with me?" Metalicana, never having anything or anything to share with got a nice feeling.
The two boys enjoyed the pile of sweets, the sandwich was forgotten.
There you go, I just wanted to mention that this is my last week of school before my fall break. I will try to upload an extra chapter or make a one shot during this time, I haven't decided yet. If you have a preference of which I do, then give a review saying which you would like, and if you want the one shot then you are also welcome to leave a prompt you want to see done. Now as promised, my response to reviews I got:
OrbitalhaloGirl: I'm glad you pointed that mistake out to me, I fixed it and yes it was on accident.
ArtistictEmotions: Lol, I felt the same way when another author gave me a shout out. I'm so happy you like the story, I hope that you continue to like it as it goes on.
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